R.I.P. Advise Guru Doctor Joyce Brothers

Joyce Brothers, the TV psychologist who had her own advice show in the 1950s and then shot to fame, has died, She was 85.

Brothers died Monday in New York City, according to her longtime publicist, Sanford Brokaw. The cause of death was not immediately made public.

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It was 1955. Her husband, Milton Brothers, was still in medical school and Brothers had just given up her teaching positions at Hunter College and Columbia University to be home with her newborn, firmly believing a child’s development depended on it.